The word , translated castle six times in Acts, meant in the Macedonian dialect an encampment, and in the Septuagint it is used for the camp of the Israelites in the desert (Exo 29:14, etc.). In the vivid narrative of St. Pauls arrest in Jerusalem (Act 21:22) it probably denotes the barracks of the Roman soldiers who were stationed at the castle of Antonia, though the Revised Version as well as the Authorized Version identifies it with the castle itself.<\/p>\n
The history of this fort goes back to the time of Nehemiah, who speaks of procuring timber to make beams for the castle (the Brah) which appertains to the house (2:8; cf. 7:2). Probably on the same site John Hyrcanus, high priest from 135 to 105 b.c., built the Hasmonaean castle which Josephus calls Baris (Ant. xv. xi. 4; Bellum Judaicum (Josephus) i. xxi. 1). When Herod became king, he rebuilt that castle, which was very conveniently situated, in a magnificent manner, and because he was a friend of Antonius, he called it by the name of Antonia (Ant. xviii. iv. 3). Situated at the corner of the north and west cloisters of the Temple, it commanded, especially from its lofty S.E. tower, a view of the whole sacred precincts, while two staircases (, Act 21:35, , Jos. Bellum Judaicum (Josephus) v. v. 8) led down from it to the cloisters; and in the Roman period the soldiers of the cohort (), which was always stationed in the city, went several ways among the cloisters, with their arms, on the Jewish festivals, in order to keep watch over the people (Jos. loc. cit.).<\/p>\n
The narrator of St. Pauls arrest was evidently well acquainted with this locality, and he graphically reproduces the details of the scene. News of a Temple riot-no uncommon occurrence-came up ( ) to the commander of the cohort (, military tribune Revised Version margin), who at once took soldiers and ran down () to the fanatical crowd, probably just in time to prevent bloodshed (Act 21:31-32). As St. Paul was about to be conducted up one of the staircases leading to the barracks, he was swept off his feet by the rising human tide, and had literally to be carried out of danger by the soldiers; but, recovering himself on the upper steps, he asked and obtained permission to address the baffled and still raging crowd, who turned a sea of angry faces upon him from below. His beckoning hand and his Aramaic speech secured a temporary silence, which enabled him to tell his vast audience the story of his conversion, but he could not get beyond the fatal word Gentiles (Act 22:21), and, leaving behind him a yelling mob, he was marched into the barracks. Fort Antonia was for some days his place of confinement. Hither came his nephew with a message which saved him from falling into the hands of fanatical conspirators (Act 23:16), and here Christ Himself seemed to stand by him with words of good cheer (Act 23:11). From the castle he was taken by night to Antipatris, and thence to Caesarea (Act 23:31-33).<\/p>\n
Literature.-T. Lewin, Life and Epistles of St. Paul3, 1875, ii. 135ff.; Conybeare-Howson, Life and Epistles of St. Paul, 1856, ii. 311ff.; H.A. A. Kennedy, Source of NT Greek, 1895, p. 15; articles Castle and Jerusalem in Encyclopaedia Biblica , Castle in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) .<\/p>\n
James Strahan.<\/p>\n
is the rendering in the A. V. of the following words in certain passages:<\/p>\n
, armon, a fortress (Pro 18:19; elsewhere uniformly “palace”); , tirah, a wall (“row,” Eze 46:23), hence an enclosure, e.g. a fortress (“palace,” Son 8:9), or a nomade hamlet of palisades (Gen 25:16; Num 21:10; 1Ch 6:54; “palace,” Eze 25:4; poetically “habitation,” Psa 69:25); , biranith [from the synonymous , birah, “palace;” SEE BARIS ], a citadel (2Ch 17:12; 2Ch 27:4); , migdal (1Ch 27:25), a tower (as elsewhere rendered); , metsad (1Ch 11:7), or , metsudah (1Ch 11:5), a fort or stronghold (as elsewhere usually rendered); , acropolis (2Ma 4:27; 2Ma 5:5); , a tower along a wall (2Ma 10:18; 2Ma 10:20; 2Ma 10:22); , a military enclosure (Act 21:34; Act 21:37; Act 22:24; Act 23:10; Act 23:16; Act 23:32) or station (“camp,” Heb 11:34; Heb 13:11; Heb 13:13; Rev 20:9). SEE TOWER; SEE PALACE, etc.<\/p>\n
Castles among the Hebrews were a kind of military fortress, frequently built on an eminence (1Ch 11:7). The priests’ castles, mentioned in 1Ch 6:54, may also have been a kind of tower, for the purpose of making known anything discovered at a distance, and for blowing the trumpets, in like manner as the Mohammedan imams ascend the minarets of the mosques at the present day to call the people to prayers. The castles of the sons of Ishmael, mentioned in Gen 25:16, were watch-towers, used by the nomad shepherds for security against marauders. The “castle” in Act 21:34, refers to the quarters of the Roman soldiers at Jerusalem in the fortress Antonia (q.v.), which was adjacent to the Temple and commanded it. SEE FORTIFICATION.<\/p>\n
a military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7<\/span>), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54<\/span>). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16<\/span>) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The “castle” into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34<\/span>), which it commanded.<\/p>\n CASTLE.1. In Gen 25:16, Num 31:10, 1Ch 6:54, an obsolete, if not erroneous, rendering in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] of a word denoting a nomad encampment (so RV [Note: Revised Version.] ).<\/p>\n 2. In 1Ch 11:5; 1Ch 11:7 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] speaks of the castle of Zion, the citadel or acropolis of the Jebusite city, but RV [Note: Revised Version.] renders as in 2Sa 5:7; 2Sa 5:9 stronghold. A different word (birah) is used of the castle or fort which in Nehemiahs day defended the Temple (Neh 2:8; Neh 7:2), and of the fortified royal residence of the Persian kings at Susa (Neh 1:1, Est 1:2 etc.; RV [Note: Revised Version.] palace, marg. castle). The fortress in Jerusalem to which the authors of the books of Maccabees and Josephus give the name of Acra, is termed the castle in 2Ma 4:27; 2Ma 5:5; 2Ma 10:20 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , where RV [Note: Revised Version.] has throughout citadel (so also 1Ma 1:33 and elsewhere). See, further. City, Fortification and Siegecraft, 4.<\/p>\n A. R. S. Kennedy.<\/p>\n kas’l. See FORTIFICATION.<\/p>\n Castle [FORTIFICATIONS]<\/p>\n See FORTRESS.<\/p>\n A tower<\/p>\n Gen 25:16<\/span>; Num 31:10<\/span>; 1Ch 11:5<\/span>; 1Ch 11:7<\/span>; 2Ch 17:12<\/span>; 2Ch 27:4<\/span>; Act 21:34<\/span>; Act 21:37<\/span>; Act 23:10<\/span>; Act 23:16<\/span>; Act 23:32<\/span> <\/p>\n \n Bars of<\/p>\n Pro 18:19<\/span> <\/p>\n \n The doctrine, »The house is my castle«<\/p>\n Deu 24:10-11<\/span> Fort<\/span>; Tower<\/span> <\/p>\n Castle. See Fenced Cities.<\/p>\n * For CASTLE see ARMY (No. 3) <\/p>\n Pro 18:19 (b) This figure describes the position and resentful arguments of an unsaved person whose heart has been hardened through mistreatment and unwise dealings.<\/p>\n Castle The word , translated castle six times in Acts, meant in the Macedonian dialect an encampment, and in the Septuagint it is used for the camp of the Israelites in the desert (Exo 29:14, etc.). In the vivid narrative of St. Pauls arrest in Jerusalem (Act 21:22) it probably denotes the barracks of the … Continue reading “Castle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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